Get ready for lower App Store prices overall, the proliferation of new iPhone app stores (Amazon, Microsoft, and some 3rd parties), and a spawning of some really garbage apps and malware.
Apple may be monopolizing, but they have the strictest standards for app approval. This means iOS apps which don’t update to adopt new iOS look/feel and APIs stop getting approved. With a 3rd party app store, we’ll start to see apps that look ‘old’ because Apple can’t reject them from a 3rd party app store. And of course, we’ll see new malware that Apple also can no longer reject.
Still, I expect Apple to make it glaringly obvious to users that non-Apple apps are sketchy (probably a warning box every time they are launched) and it will eventually look a lot like the current situation on Android.
Get ready for lower App Store prices overall, the proliferation of new iPhone app stores (Amazon, Microsoft, and some 3rd parties), and a spawning of some really garbage apps and malware.
Apple may be monopolizing, but they have the strictest standards for app approval. This means iOS apps which don’t update to adopt new iOS look/feel and APIs stop getting approved. With a 3rd party app store, we’ll start to see apps that look ‘old’ because Apple can’t reject them from a 3rd party app store. And of course, we’ll see new malware that Apple also can no longer reject.
Still, I expect Apple to make it glaringly obvious to users that non-Apple apps are sketchy (probably a warning box every time they are launched) and it will eventually look a lot like the current situation on Android.